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After a successful first edition in February, Little Cinema Queenstown is back for another round. Supported by Film Queenstown Lakes and Film Otago Southland, this spectacular short film showcase supports filmmaking at grassroots levels in the Queenstown Lakes District area…

The 2024 New Zealand Television Awards will open for nominations on Monday, 1 July. The New Zealand Television Awards have been acknowledging and honouring outstanding achievements in New Zealand television for the last seven years and are the premier awards…

After the Chiefs’ win on Saturday, the Waikato gets to celebrate again today, as Ka Whaiwaha Tonu has its Aotearoa New Zealand premiere tonight (Monday 17th June) in Hamilton. It will be the largest premiere screening to be held in…

What if each time you watched a movie, it played out differently? That’s the idea behind generative film, a new genre that some filmmakers are starting to experiment with. The idea is to use AI to mix up scenes and…

The back-of-the-envelope math does not look good. It now appears that much of the budget for “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga,” the most expensive film ever made in Australia, was funded by Australian taxpayers. Screen NSW, a government agency supporting…

A few months ago, Elizabeth and Nitza from The Writers Lab approached me with a simple question: “What percentage of movies are written by women over the age of 40?” The Writers Lab is an organisation set up specifically to nurture the…

The Hollywood Basic Crafts have officially wrapped the first week of negotiations on a new three-year agreement with the studios. In a memo to members, the unions — which include Teamsters Local 399, IBEW Local 40, LiUNA! Local 724, OPCMIA…

This story was originally published on The Spinoff In the dark of night, a mysterious figure drags a body through a sea of mud. The next morning, as the local community celebrates the discovery of a dinosaur fossil, two men…

The Taxpayers Union has said that the New Zealand Film Commission needs to stop giving out film subsidies – because they’re not good value.  According to numbers compiled by former boss of South Pacific Pictures, John Barnett, the Film Commission…

A film and TV welfare association has been launched in the UK in the wake of the tragic death of producer John Balson. Balson took his own life a few weeks after working on true crime doco In the Footsteps of…

Following his trip to Auckland this week, Minister Paul Goldsmith has announced appointments to boards of three organisations across his Arts and Media portfolios. In his capacity as Media and Communications Minister, Mr Goldsmith is appointing Andrew Caisley as Chair…